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Page 7 - Williams gives at $3,300,000, as does also the report of the Royal Commission on the Mineral Resources of Ontario, 1890, p.
Page 25 - ... 20-hp boiler and hoist have been installed on number 4 vein, and a compressor plant been ordered and will be put in without delay. A dining and sleeping camp 60 feet by 45 feet has been erected. Mr. G. Adler is superintendent, employing a force of 40 men. Silver Bar This property is the southwest part of the north half of lot 5 in the fourth concession of Coleman, and was located in 1905 by Mr. CW Knight, and sold by him to the Silver Bar Mining Company, of which Mr. Rinaldo McConnell of Ottawa...
Page 62 - The operators' bench board occupies a central elevated position in front of the switch tower, giving a full view of the generator room and the switching operations in the tower. All switches are distantly controlled, and there is nothing higher than 125 volts on the board. A small motor-driven air compressor is installed for cleaning purposes and for handling oil by air pressure.
Page 53 - ... Cobalt Silver Camp Cobalt Hydraulic Power Company The Cobalt Hydraulic Power Company has constructed the largest one-unit air compressor in the world at Ragged Chutes, on the Montreal river, about nine miles south of Cobalt. This plant operates on the Taylor system, whereby the air is compressed by the direct action of falling water. At Ragged Chutes there is a drop of 54 feet in the river in a distance of 1,000 feet. The whole head is utilized, and furnishes 5,500 horse power, which will compress...
Page 21 - Limited, control the southwest quarter of the south half of lot 1, in the third concession, and the north half of the east half of the southwest quarter of lot 2, in the third concession, both in Coleman.
Page 7 - ... ore. The ore from the mines, loaded in hopper-bottomed cars, is dumped from a trestle to a stock-pile ground beneath. Under this stock-pile ground, in line with the centre line of the trestle, is a tunnel through which a forty-two inch belt will convey the ore to a similar belt at the water's edge, which in turn conveys and elevates the ore to the dock trestle, sixty feet above the water level. It is then tripped off the belt, weighed by an automatic device, and dumped into pockets from which...
Page 8 - Geological descriptions of areas, including and adjacent to the Porcupine area, are to be found In the reports of the Bureau of Mines for 1903, 1904 and 1905 by Messrs.
Page 58 - However, the charge exploded prematurely, killing one man. The Mining Act at the time of the accident prohibited the use of explosives in hot or heated ore. This provision did not apply in the above case, and an amendment was passed at the last session of the Legislature which makes the law to read as follows: "No powder, dynamite or other explosive shall be used to blast or break up ore, salamander or other material, whore by reason of the heated condition of the ore, salamander or other material...
Page 43 - Plants were brought in during the winter, and a surprising number of properties are equipped with power plants. " The ' show ' properties at present are the Timmons, Dome, and Foster. " The Timmons (Hollinger) is about seven miles west of Porcupine lake and a mile and a half east of the Mattagami river. A clearing of forty acres has been made and substantial mine buildings erected. The plant consists of two boilers, a compressor, hoist, and dynamo; a crusher and small prospecting stamp mill are being...
Page 13 - ... Nipissing Mining Company's pumping plant. completely drain Cart lake, which is only 8 feet in depth and will expose a great deal of Peterson lake, which is quite shallow. Mr. JB Woodworth has a force of 16 men employed in cutting out the trench. Drummond Mine This mine is situated on the northwest quarter of the north half of lot 2 in the fourth concession of Coleman township, and was the second mine to be opened up in the Kerr lake district. The mine is owned and operated by the Drummond Mines,...